Open Source Text To Speech

Windows Indic Language TTS Beta Software

What's New

Date

Description

﻿9 Feb 2018

Updated Kannada Female voice to fix a problem in pronouncing long O, such as in OK and ಒಖಿ.

Date

Description

26 Jan 2018

Updated Tamil Male voice to improve speech quality. The new Tamil male voice file is more than 5 times larger than the earlier voice. The new installer is about 99 MB. Hence it will take longer to download. You will notice the difference in speech quality and enjoy listening to it.

12 Jan 2018

This update adds the ability to speak single letters as the user is typing new text and spell a word by using “Say prior/next character” keys. It installs the Visual Studio redistributable in silent mode, i.e., it does not prompt users with a dialog box with three options (install, repair and cancel). It always installs the redistributable even if it is already installed.

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Step 1: Enter Your Information

We need your name and email address before the software can be downloaded. This will be used only for providing support including update information and gather feedback for product improvement. We will never use it for any other purpose.

Hear2Read base Engine includes an English female voice with Indian accent. This must be installed before installing Indic voices.

If you already have the base engine installed you can skip this step and proceed to the voice download page.

Step 2: Indicate Indic voice You Want to Use

Hear2Read voices that are used by the base engine can now be downloaded. Pick the voice you would like to test.

Step 3: Install Files

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Using Hear2Read software with NVDA screen reader:

NOTE: NVDA must be restarted for it to recognize Hear2Read TTS and voices. For VI users, most likely NVDA is already running on the PC and restarting NVDA after stopping it (Exit) is not practical, therefore, VI users should restart the PC assuming it is configured for NVDA to always start when Windows starts.

Open NVDA synthesizer settings in preference submenu by clicking right arrow key and hit enter on general settings of NVDA.

Select Microsoft speech sapi5 voice option in the synthesizer.

Now go to voice settings in NVDA preference submenu. It should show Hear2Read English, Hindi and any additional voices that were installed. Select the Hear2Read voice you wish to use.

All Hear2Read voices do try to speak English though they are not very good at it. Some are better than others. We are aware of the challenge and are working on improving them.